all these numbers said they were going to vote one way based on how they talk about issues like crime but they voted the other way. people are voting their pocketbooks and trump was right. the shutdown needed to end and filibuster and whatever it took. nuclear option, it's got to s stop. >> sean: i hope for the sake of people, i don't want to come on the air and how to beg people to go to the local -- local food bank. please stay with the fox news channel for continuing coverage of tonight's election results paramount brett and martha take it from here. you are in great hands, ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bret: it is election night in america and results are in for several closely watch races around the country. welcome to fox news democracy

25, special coverage. i'm bret baier live from fox news election headquarters in new york. >> and i'm martha maccallum. three big races shaping the map tonight. in new york, fox news projects zohran mamdani will become the city's first democratic socialist mayor , beating a republican curtis sliwa and independent andrew cuomo. >> bret: in neighboring new jersey to fox news decision desk projects that mikie sherrill will become the state's next governor there. >> martha: and meanwhile, fox news also projects democrat abigail spanberger will win the virginia governor's race, flipping that seat to become the commonwealth's first female governor. >> bret: we've got coverage tonight. joining us in virginia and new jersey as well as alexis mcadams in new york. >> martha: brit hume is standing by, plus our panel right here to break it all down. dana perino, shannon bream, harold ford jr. and charlie hurt. >> bret: let's take a

live look now as supporters are gathered at campaign headquarters for new york's mayoral candidates. that is where we start with alexis mcadams at the mamdani hq in brooklyn, that has to be getting 30 fired up there. >> that's right. the music is loud, people are here and it is kind of like when people say the party will not start until later, on job until later on. they have shown up here right after the polls closed because for this, supporters of zohran mamdani, it wasn't a question of weather he was going to win or not in new york city, it was how much he would win by. they had the momentum and it comes down to affordability. sometimes politics can be difficult and complicated to explain to people. mamdani, the 34 euros democrat socialist trying to make it simple. he said i will give you a free bus, i will freeze your rent, i will give government owned grocery stores here in new york city. and people thought it sounds like a great idea. i will vote for that guy because they reject democrat establishment, according to the voters i talked to. the younger, liberal voters here

in new york city don't care who chuck schumer endorses, they don't care who hakeem jeffries backs, they care who is for the people of new york city and the people, the country and weather people like him or not , he has a lot of support here and people are excited for one time, i'd seen talking to voters about the future of the democratic party. so what is going to happen in new york city tomorrow when he wakes up and heads to city hall and will be the next mayor here in the big apple? we will have to see. but andrew cuomo thought he could close the gap it looks like he didn't have it. >> bret: thank you. >> bill at the board breaking down the result tonight. bill, as all of this sort of settles and, were you seeing? >> it is very interesting. you think about the last seven days of the campaign and how they were trying to drive curtis sliwa's numbers down. there was an active campaign here in new york city. it was in-your-face just about every day. on top of that they try to get each other to drop out during the debate season. the effort to draw sliwa voters

away from him kind of work -- and i will show you why. he is down to single digits. it wasn't enough. cuomo is at 41.5. i'm down here to staten island. this is where sliwa is the strongest. he checked in at 21% of the vote and it's not nothing but i will show you something from four years ago. it really stands out. four years ago he was at 70% in that one borough of staten island. least populated at five. half a million people live there but if the idea was to get those voters, all 69,924 of them and find a way to support andrew cuomo, they found some success in doing so. but it was not enough to catch zohran mamdani who got over 50% of that vote. pop on out here to the big map. i will show you where it stands right now. any time you were over 50 percent, it is really hard. i mean the math will tell you it just does not add up. in a three-way race, it makes it

even more difficult so we're starting to see the breakdown here in new york. let me show you a few things. this is brooklyn. brooklyn is really where mamdani had most of his strength. we look at these precincts. some of these precincts are half a block. sometimes they're just a city street, that's all. some of these precincts are behind mamdani at greater than 95%. i'm here in williamsburg, okay? heavy mamdani territory. in the bushwick, park slow and brooklyn. and then here in borough park, he hits a wall. in borough park it is hasidic and they went for cuomo overwhelmingly, 88-90%. but it wasn't enough to overtake mamdani in the end. i will point out to more things here quickly. and the governor's race in new jersey, all of the polling said this would be really close. i tell you right now with more than 80% of the vote in, mikie

sherrill had a 35-point lead. i cannot recall off the top of my head how money polls were out there that had her with a 13-point lead. but again, that is the number right now in new jersey. virginia, real quick before i kick it back to you, we called this some time ago. abigail spanberger. i think you can make the case that she outperformed a lot of the polls that we had seen for weeks, leading up to this campaign. but right now democrats are 3-0 on the night. >> bret: big wins. we will come back to you. this year fox news is debuting a new way to understand tonight's election results. the fox news voter poll. it is the data that covers thousands of voters who cast ballots early on election day, by mail and in person. sandra smith has been crunching those numbers. >> and some of the key groups we are seeing behind the vote, really telling the story here in new york city. when you break it down by age of the voter, the youth vote

overwhelmingly vote for mamdani in this race. 75% of their support went to him. and when you break this down into gender, that number gets even bigger. the female youth vote, women under the age of 30 , he break that down and that number goes over 80% support for mamdani in this race. other key findings that we are finding in the race, what qualities were voters looking for in their candidate? this was a change election. 27% said they want to bring change to the city. and look at that. they supported mamdani. 72% of their vote went to him. a couple other things i want to highlight here. do you democrat -- you'd define yourself the democrat socialist? look at this number. this is one of every four new yorkers who cast their ballot identified as a democrat socialist. of course you click on this and you will see their support went to mamdani in this race, 81% of their support. a couple other things i want to

highlight. mamdani versus cuomo. this was basically a question be put to voters when they cast their ballot that if sliwa was not in the race and this was a hypothetical to wait matchup, mamdani versus cuomo, bret and martha, it it's close but mamdani still got the edge in that hypothetical matchup. just a couple things we are taking way from all of that tonight. >> bret: thank you. >> martha: let's bring in our panel. dana perino, cheryl breen, harold ford jr. and charlie hurt, great to have all of you with us as we look at these results. and some very thing to begin wins. >> my partner in crime over there mentioned the polling and i think that is going to be one of the threads that people will want to pull after this because the polling did suggest much tighter races. that is not what happened. but you know what was undefeated and i'm sure brit hume will talk about this and that is the betting markets. and so i think the whole polling industry has to take a look and say with these phones, with the new ways to do it, what do we not have a handle on?

to the extent there was any story at all it's a little bit of a surprise. the shouldn't have been much suspense but because the democrats are in such disarray -- aside from the democrat socialist who appeared to be going very strong, they will have a very difficult time. and i'm sure harold is going to say that zohran mamdani is not a democrat. he's a democrat socialist. >> bret: he will start by saying thank for having me. [laughter] >> i think it will be very difficult from a messaging standpoint. all of the energy is behind zohran mamdani. and i remember something that george will said. every 20 years or so, people need a controlled experiment in socialism to remind them of why they need adults in charge. and unfortunately for the city that is not of my birth but certainly one that i adopted and that i love this place. i do hope for the best, i wish them the best and i hope that he

can love it is much as we do. >> bret: a lot of people in new york thought bill de blasio was that. and that it didn't work and that this was not going to happen again. and here they are. and you wonder what this means for the city and what it means for your party. >> it is good to be back here around the table. i will say a couple things. the last two mayors we have had in this city, bill de blasio and eric adams, many people thought that they were national figures and they embraced that national figure position put on them. bill de blasio ran for president periods campaign was roundly rebuffed. eric adams was on a trajectory then he ran into some hurdles and opposition. some of it self-inflicted. but as he leads office tonight, crime is coming down and new york remains a place where people want to invest. we come to mr. mamdani. i'm surprised by some of the numbers. i'm a democrat, i'm not a democrat socialist. tonight will be interesting to hear his speech. isn't unifying? does he reach out to jessica tisch? does he try to allay some of the

concerns who is our police commissioner who has a shepherd did this violent crime reduction in our city -- i live in the city and vote in the city, my kids go to school in the city and make it easy for kids to take the subway. number 2. this is a good night for dems. if they had lost one of these states we would be saying this is a terrible night. they won by 14 points in both virginia and -- virginia and new jersey. and we won the supreme court races in pennsylvania and we retained the public service commission seats in georgia. some will say we help serve. you've got to hold it to win. tomorrow as we get ready for the political day, mr. trump and republicans will have some questions to answer. the shutdown will still be on people's minds and i will be curious to know if we look at the polling, did the shutdown play in new jersey and virginia in these last week or two as we talk about s.n.a.p. benefits and so forth? and number 2, there is a big

conversation that will take place in the supreme court tomorrow about the legality of the tariffs. so the world goes on tomorrow but as we sit here tonight, democrats had a good night and where i agree with dana, we have got to us decide if mr. mamdani will be the face of our party. and adams and bill de blasio, they thought they could be the leaders but i would argue that a democrat to beat a democrat and the primary who wanted to face down crime and make san francisco more attractive, the mayor of philadelphia who beat a democrat, a black woman who is addressing crime in a very different way. their mares around the country who have to deal to realities. i wish mr. spanberger -- mamdani the best and i hope his lack of commitment to our police, i hope he is able to allay some of those concerned starring this evening. >> bret: present from just rang in and posted on truth social, quote, trump wasn't on the ballot and shut down were the two reasons that republicans lost elections tonight. charlie hurt? >> that is a very trump message. and it is true.

i would say it was certainly not a bad night for democrats. but i would temperate a little bit. if we sat back six months ago and sort of predicted the outcome of all of these races, we probably would have done a better job of getting it all right then you would by reading the polls in the last couple weeks. dana raised a good point about the betting markets. it's like who is getting in late they nail these things. and even if the betting markets are wrong the day before the election, by the time polls close, they are within a tenth of a point. i am suspicious enough that it kind of makes me wonder whether or not it is not campaign people doing it. but look. if you go back 40 years, not only are virginia and new jersey both solid blue states now, if you go back, their reputation for voters rejecting whatever

party won the white house in the previous year is almost without fail. there have been two examples. one in each state over the last four years where they have not done that. so this is not to be unexpected. i don't think -- it is not a bad night for democrats but i don't know that you can really spike the ball here. certainly democrats one the expectations game because of the last couple of weeks. what they still have monumental problems. not only do you have a communist in new york city and we will see how he decides to govern but you also have the jay jones in virginia that republicans will be able to run against both of these people all across the country. >> one of the things that president trump has gotten a lot of traction on is the issue of crime, removing illegal migrants who are here and who have committed crimes. and mamdani has said some very dark things about the new york city police.

we all remember bill de blasio having the police en masse turned their backs to him at a new york city police officer funeral. that is one of the things that i think we will really be watching is his relationship with the police because 9% will leave the city. it is going to be a huge percentage of police officers we know as well. >> think about what he said about not working with nypd, not working with ice, not working together. he said he essentially wants to double down on the century city laws you have here in new york city so for a lot of people who live and work and spend their money here or who decide to take and go somewhere else, that is a huge issue for him. and all of these promises -- you've now is make promises during the campaign and we know that's what all candidates do, there are some folks -- very controversial folks who say i'm going to be staying here and watching. you cannot just go in there and do whatever you want. we will be enforcing from the outside to make sure that you wind up with the progressive things they promised and that we put you there to do. it will be entering how he governs.

>> bret: he was running back on some things already. will take you back to the governor's race in new jersey and take a short break here as our fox news election coverage continues.♪ ♪ ♪ ent of allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, from food, insects, medicines, and other allergy triggers. use at first signs of allergic reaction. ask your doctor how to use neffy. certain medical conditions may worsen. tell your doctor about nasal, heart, or other medical conditions, high blood pressure, if you're pregnant or breastfeeding, and all medications. side effects include nasal discomfort, headache, runny nose, shakiness, and throat irritation. ask your prescriber about needle-free neffy or learn more at neffy.com.

>> bret: over in the board, new jersey kind of separate. >> just bouncing around a little bit. a couple months ago, four years ago, we're looking at some of these counties that flipped and they flipped and they flipped again. and really that is what i'm seeing. i would just put your attention down here in southern new jersey. we did this exercise about three hours ago and we will do it again here. here in northern new jersey as well. you're your current results, 85% of races all the lead by 13 points. let it go ahead and remove that and show you this is jack ciattarelli's election four years ago against phil murphy. this is when it shocked everybody. everyone was watching virginia and glenn youngkin taking on

terry mcauliffe. once that race was over he put her eyes and we were stunned to see that this race was as close as it was. so murphy was the eventual winner four years ago, let me put the pencil back up there. you see the pattern? that is four years ago and this is now. and i was just looking at the presidential results being very similar as well. if you pull up new jersey from where you are right now -- sorry guys, let me rearrange that bad boy. i think that was the first bad punch we had all night. this is what donald trump did against kamala harris. he flipped those counties in the south and he flipped those counties in the north. similar pattern, right? then you come back to the governor's race this year and it just seems to me that these voters that i'm talking about here -- they are up for grabs. and they made that pretty well known throughout the night tonight in new jersey. back over there. >> bret: thank you.

>> martha: let's bring in brit hume as we digest where we are tonight. what is the big take away for you when you look at these three races? >> i don't think you ever need to look very far in our current politics without wondering what the effect of donald trump was and is. i was struck by what was coming out of mikie sherrill's campaign tonight, that he was a big factor in the race as far as she was concerned and resistance to him was that there was a number that was cited earlier from our polling data that showed that something like 70% of the voters on her side were acting to resist donald trump. so i think we have to keep that in mind as we look at all of these results. and the other side of that is that trump can turn out voters but they turn out for him. and everything we have seen tonight suggests that when he is not on the ballot, even if he is trying to influence the ballots, if he is not on there himself,'s voters are must less interested than they would otherwise be.

so as the republican party moves forward here under his leadership, they have to start thinking about what it will be like when he is gone and what it will be like next year when we have a midterm election which you will not be on the ballot but his administrative or image will be. so i think that is what we need to keep an eye on. >> bret: we are very sad you are appeared to give us the betting markets as we progressed tonight. because they were pretty accurate. [laughter] >> i did that back and what, 2161 '07 but the betting markets? i was sitting way down at the far end of the desk! by the time you got to me every inning that could be said had been said so i was just sort of in the betting markets just to have something to say. >> martha: resourceful as ever! >> bret: that's right. i want to ask about the economy. there is this thought that the treasury secretary, others that this golden time is coming.

that will all come to fruition. but right now, there is a feeling of dichotomy between big companies and wall street and what families at home or feeling. and you're starting to see that in the polls. on the economy, upside down on inflation and on the economy overall. >> i agree. i think we need to keep and i i on the effect of ai on all of this. the stacker investments are made in ai, the technology seems to be advancing by leaps and bounds but the one thing i think we can all agree on is that it will kill a lot of jobs. in the long run it may create more jobs as technology has a history of doing but in the near term, a lot of people will be hurt by it. a lot of people will be helped as well and that will be on the high-end of things and it will be nice. there will be a lot of people who are not on the high-end of things will be feeling that and that will have an effect on our politics going forward to be sure. particularly in the near term.

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of the districts that overlook where aoc is. he was really propelled to this mayoral win tonight by young voters who turned out in enormous numbers. and also interestingly by jewish voters in the city of new york where we have the largest population of jewish voters in any city in america. all of that has obviously been controversial along the way but he has propelled himself to a big win tonight and we will hear from him, we imagine fairly quickly. >> bret: you look at that crowd and you look at the numbers. young people, 18-34, 35-49, 73-18. 52-34, 35-49. you see those guys with the hats? they are in the 17-29 area. there's a lot of young people who voted for him. meanwhile democrat, democrat abigail spanberger coming out victorious to be the commonwealth's next governor, the first female governor.

she defeated the republican lieutenant governor winsome earle-sears. we are there at her, her headquarters, dying down. or maybe totally died down in virginia. rich? >> good evening. that's right. it is at that point in a campaign where they have stopped the music under cleaning up the ballroom. all has wrapped up for the governor who gave her concession speech about 45 minutes or an hour ago. she says she called the governor-elect, abigail spanberger to concede the race, did not connect with her, she left a voice message in which she said she offered to help her that she hoped that she would lead a state for all virginians. abigail spanberger, her watch party down in richmond, virginia, said that she wanted to thank her opponent for a hard-fought race and that the lieutenant governor's story, or military service enter years of service to the commonwealth of virginia deserve our respect and our gratitude. some nice words for the two candidates who had a tough campaign against one another here.

there was an outstanding race. fox news called this particular governor's race pretty early, less than an hour after the polls had closed in virginia. but it was still unclear as to weather jay jones the democrat running for attorney general was going to win his race. remember he scent those pretty violent text messages back in 2022. news of them only emerged last month and democrats were caught in a position where they had to say or they did say we condemn the tax but will send it back to you. >> bret: thank you. >> let's go to sanders smith who has more insight from our fox news voter poll has a lot of interesting information in it about the dynamic that produced. >> hello. two big stories that developed throughout the evening. and what we were looking for heading into tonight was whether or not we would see those ticket splitters in virginia. and it turns out there were some but it wasn't enough. but you can see that of those who voted for her in this race,

did split the vote. 9% of them did but 86% still voted along party lines for jay jones in that race. also the gender gap story, it is a huge one both in virginia and new jersey. this is the largest gender gap we have seen in recent history. so the female vote in this race really put her over the edge. you were looking at a gap of about 24 points there. when i show you that winsome earle-sears did when the mail vote by about six points, you put it together and that is a 32-point gender gap in that race. so the female vote really counted for her. i will finish off by showing you also the gender gap that we saw in new jersey in the race there. it was similar, not as big but still big enough. this is the mail vote in that state. it goes to ciattarelli by about six points but then you look at this female vote for cheryl in that race, a 20-point gap there.

and that obviously really helped lead to her victory with a lot of stories developing about that gender gap in those gubernatorial races. back to you guys. >> bret: back with the panel. dana, the reaction, i think -- how do you digest it all tonight? and what it means is you had up to 26? what will the republican party say but tonight. >> i think these were blue states, that democrats were always going to win and we have a lot of places where we can win. and i also think this redistricting story which is another story that is parallel to all of this and looking at the yellow here on our floor representing california with prop 50 because republicans got this ball rolling, texas will redistrict and other republican states are thinking about it as well. california said not so fast. so you will see a shrinkage of republicans representing california in some way.

they will try to win those races but what i do believe will happen is you are going to have a knockdown, drag out fight about capitalism and socialism. and what i would love to see is some in the republican party to understand that you can commend kate on tik tok, instagram reels and to young people about how capitalism is your ticket to affordability. it doesn't have to rest was around mom donnie and the democratic socialist. address with figuring out how to reduce regulations, more money in the pocket, giving you the opportunity to take a risk and start a business. mamdani has never given anybody a job. we have! the taxpayers have. and this city is built on capitalism. who is the charismatic person -- there has got to be one, that isn't trump necessarily, because

he can't do everything, republicans have to think about how do we try to win when president trump isn't on the ballot? he will be active in the midterms he will not be on the ballot. you have to learn to win by yourself. same thing with obama when he was president. he did not help. i want to add one other thing. because what sander is saying about the gender gap is significant. latino voters were expected, especially new jersey, to come ciattarelli's way. they did not. >> that is another line of conversation so what is that going to be? why? was it the economic conditions? was it the hope of zohran mamdani? or did it have something to do with immigration? i know that a lot of hispanics will say that they of course want the border to be fixed. but maybe they are not for the way that things are going down across the country when it comes to getting some of the worst out of the country. >> this point about capitalism, which i know is something that you are a very big fan of, how

do you think -- what happens on day one? who is this mayor going to surround himself with? you have any sense of what that is going to look like? because he told me in our interview that he was glad that this is known as the capitalism center of the world. >> i thought his interview with you, martha -- that was just a few weeks ago now, i was shocked by it into her three ways. number 1 , he didn't seem to have a unifying voice that afternoon. he has an opportunity tonight. you asked him point blank if he would arrest benjamin netanyahu if he found his way back to the united states for any range of meetings and he didn't say no. he didn't say yes, but he didn't say no. you talk about policing and public safety. and he talked about wanting to create a new agency within the police department that would help deal with domestic violence and mental health issues. i think a lot of people want that. but i think most new yorkers -- every new yorker wants to call police and have them respond.

in 2024 just last year i was on your show after being on this great show the night before, we both work and i said to democrats, we are not listening. for us to lose this race like this and for people to be so angry, you have to listen. and i think that tonight democrats and republicans alike had to listen. people have concerns about the cost of living. people are concerned about affordability. change was on the ballot here and he won in a big way. i would argue that is much as people argue new jersey is a democratic state and virginia is a democratic state, these numbers are real numbers. a 14-point difference and agree with charlie, i don't know how these betting markets got all the stuff right, maybe brit hume can tell us. it is a 14-point win. britt made the point about ai. i think the biggest conversation we will have as a nation and policymakers and politicians next year is how we embrace the great that ai is going to bring to our economy, the efficiency and innovation and what we do to ensure that the dislocations and

the displacements -- basically what americans call firings, what we do to try to pave a way for everyday americans to keep their jobs? and a lighter note, the country should take lessons from new jersey and new york. we count our votes fast and we count them efficient. we are not waiting until the middle of the night. california, new jersey, virginia and new york. within the hour, we had all of the results. kudos to those dates. >> bret: to these points about the separation with females, the virginia governor, to female candidates. spanberger was up 24 points in new jersey, cheryl is up -- sherrill is up. a latino vote of with a 30-point win for the democrat in new jersey, 30s for the others. does that show you that may be the images of ice and immigration stuff is having an effect on females? i am making a jump here but is

that possible that is where that could be? >> i think without a doubt. and virginia is kind of hard to draw larger lessons from just because -- donald trump is sort of like kryptonite in a place like virginia. virginia is never -- even republicans are a little bit wary of donald trump. and so -- they generally like genteel, soft politics in virginia. but in terms of the gender gap, when you look at women voting for jay jones by a 55-43 margin, men voting for jay jones -- against jay jones, 58-40. it really does sort of wonder -- first of all, is a guy that lives in virginia i may sleep with one eye open. but it also does kind of make you wonder where the message is going wrong in all of that and how people can -- and how

republicans can turn that around. larger picture. if democrats take tonight as just a win and no lesson to learn out of this, they will be in serious trouble. because at the end of the day, you had this wild scenario in new york city with mamdani, you had barack obama refusing to endorse his own party's candidate in new york city. you have the senior senator of new york refusing to endorse their parties -- >> bret: not even to say who he voted for. >> and it is not because he was involved in a scandal where they didn't like something about him. it is because of the issues. and those issues are now dividing the party and they have to figure out how to bridge that. >> martha: we will have more with the panel coming up but up next we will head west for california voters are currently deciding a critical ballot referendum that could have major national impact.

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♪ ♪ >> bret: we are looking live at the mamdani campaign headquarters and are waiting on the mayor elect, democratic socialist to deliver remarks in brooklyn, new york, and we have the front cover of tomorrow's "new york post" which says, on your marks, get sassed -- get set, zo. zohran mamdani wins the red apple. >> martha: they have been brewing on that, trying to figure it how they are going with the cover. >> if you're going down the toilet, you may as well have a laugh about it. >> bret: there is have the

best coverage. >> we are about 15 minutes away from the polls closing in california and the major issue people are deciding with prop 50, of its past that referendum will authorize a new congressional map that could cost republicans up to five seats in the u.s. house of representatives. we are joined from los angeles, hello william. >> you are right. the whole point of prop 50 is to make congressional races here less competitive. to make them so heavily democrat that republicans cannot win. if it passes, democrats will pick up at least five congressional seats and widen their margins in swing districts. i've got some maps here. you may be able to see california currently looks on the left, 52 seats, nine republican. on the right under 50, republicans would likely win only for seats. just 7% of the state where trump 138% of the vote. the selection was framed as a referendum on the president. polls showed more than 90% of those outing for the president.

claiming democracy is it state. gavin newsom says is the only way to stop trump's agenda. the other side blames newsom for threading democracy by overwriting a voter approved, nonpartisan redistricting commission by writing a map solely for democrats for maximum partisan gain. the multiple polls suggest democrats should win here. they have a 2-1 edge in voter registration, the campaign raised twice as much money, they own the airwaves, their spokespeople steamrolled local media. the unions, nurses, teachers harvested ballots and got out to vote. again, democrats said the intent was to offset texas. this gerrymandering could also trigger the g.o.p. in north carolina, missouri, ohio, indiana, louisiana, florida to redraw maps for new republican seats. the fight is not over and pulls close in 15 minutes. there are some lines in several districts. back to you.

>> martha: thank you. >> bret: back with the panel. shannon, this battle, dana talked about it, the redistricting battle. california may, tonight, pass prop 50 and may be able to move four or five seats. there seems to be more firepower in the republican states that are moving seats. and then you have the u.s. supreme court that may make a decision on the voting rights act that could move 19 seats. >> that is actually the bigger possibility for republicans if they succeed in those arguments. they have already heard arguments and now we wait for this decision. if they make a major modification to the way states can and can't redistrict, republicans know that could be a big boon for them. because what happens in california if it does past there will be awash with what happened in texas. there are limits on how mini states can do these things but now we wait on the justices and they are on their clock. they know the elections out there in the midterms are coming but we are waiting on that decision. >> bret: with such a slim majority were talking

controlling the house. >> absolutely. and we will see what happens in california and we see what happens with the voting rights act. just coming back to york for a minute because we are waiting for the arrival of mamdani, it is interesting for making medications perspective, should he come out? receive going to miss his window when people are up and paying attention to the new mayor? >> think about it. one of his campaign events this weekend was at 1:00 a.m. at a club. so it's like they're 34 years old, he has got all of the youth on his side and like you guys go to bed? >> bret: trace gallagher has you covered. [laughter] >> we are talking about clocks and the supreme court. have they had their own clock? he's got his own clock. he thinks he is still in the city that never sleeps. >> eric adams like to go it late he will be carrying that till 4:00 a.m. >> bret: we are awaiting those are marks from zohran mamdani at the head courtesan brooklyn as you look alive. we will have some final thoughts

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apparently a whole whole lot of fans. call 833 leaffilter or visit leaffilter.com. ♪ ♪ >> martha: still waiting for the late-night guy. zohran mamdani to come and accept the mayor's office of new york city, moving to gracie mansion with his wife and we are waiting for word that he has arrived. this will be an interesting speech, i think people will want to hear what he has to say, see if he has to temperate a bit or if he digs in deep to his victory and start talking free groceries and busses. >> bret: i will say full court press. and were at the billboard, final thoughts on tonight? >> he is going from stabilized to gracie mansion. that is quite -- >> which is also rent-stabilized! [laughter]

>> just give me a minute and i will go ahead and break this down. if you want to look at virginia in a way, you can almost draw a line that shows the eastern half is a mix of red and blue and the western half is already. you can almost do that for years ago. if we're going to take this off, you see the blue creep? and then the northern virginia area that we talked about. these counties came out in a big way. these counties came out in a big way. they are loaded with voters and they came out to be spoken to tonight in northern virginia. by three of the top four counties in terms of population in northern virginia. really a difference maker. i pointed this out an hour ago. a mix of blue and red in the southern part of new jersey. and mix of blue and red and the north, this is not what jack ciattarelli wanted. he needed to do well in both areas and tonight was not his night. 12.5% with 91% of the vote

counted. i know you will talk about new york and a minute here and i would just you a couple things here. we were looking at trying to get ready for this night. and what we wanted to emphasize to our viewers at home was just the density of the population, the voters themselves in these boroughs. it just blows your mind. when you study a place like the five boroughs of new york, it is not a county or a state, you were literally studying a country and you can find that out here in queens. if you were to pull this up here , try and understand how this borough breaks down. 2.4 million people just packed in this area here. mamdani in blue, this is his home district, a story of queens. cleaning up over here. over here in jamaica -- by the way, you can have jamaica states, jamaica hills. all kinds of jamaica's here. jamaica estates is where donald trump was born and raised. and jamaica is also where andrew cuomo was born. and tonight they got behind him by about 85%.

but it was sibley not enough to overcome a mamdani. and that pretty much summarizes a lot of what we have been watching through the night. >> martha: i wonder if you will walk out to billy joel's new york state of mind. [laughter] >> there is a back story there, tell us about it. >> bret: back to the ussr? weight, what? >> he didn't know -- he couldn't identify the song by billy joel, new york state of mind in a contest. but i bet he knows it now. >> bret: final thoughts from brit hume? 30,000 feet, how are you looking tonight? we have been digging into some of these counties for example in the commonwealth of virginia. some of them that kamala harris one by 20. there were heavy latino hispanic counties. abigail spanberger one by 42. >> i think the margins by which they won were surprising to some extent but it is not at all surprising that the democrats

one post -- both of those estates. they are essentially blue or leaning blue and they had a kind of weak candidate on the republican side in virginia to go into that. i think something to watch going forward, everybody, is how hard will mamdani push the agenda that he outlined during the campaign? that will make a difference on the question of weather he can become or will become the face of the democratic party. and let's keep in mind that he cannot do a lot of the stuff he promised on his own. for example,, if he wanted to have free bus rides in a new york city, that is not under his control. that is not under the mayor's control. that is under the governor's control and there's a body that works with the governor, the metropolitan transit authority or whatever it is called. that would have to be something he gets through that. so he may be less prominent as mayor then he was as a

candidate, at least in the near term. that is certainly something i will be keeping an eye on. >> bret: okay,, thank you again tonight. we will go to our panel for some quick thoughts. charli? >> obviously i would say that this is kind of a dog bites man kind of story. we could have predicted this six months ago. democrats massively outspent republicans in these races and the other thing i think is interesting is i wonder in new jersey and new york, how much of the results are partly a result of the mass exodus of voters that we have already seen to places like florida. >> there are two deep dive studies that came over democrat in the last few days. one from the welcome group and one from democracy matters. the vast majority of people said they thought democrats were out of touch, talking to much about climate change, lgbt rights, those kind of things. they wanted to hear about border,. [crying] economy. the republicans did that -- some of the demo had stated it may be there the prototypes but they will be a contrast to mamdani

where they have to decide and 26 and 28 if he speaks for them. >> and they have to get results, dana. >> i think that is also the thing for mamdani. so if he becomes mayor and is incompetent, then democratic socialism doesn't look so good. comes in, doesn't it was much as people think he might do and you will see much more across the nation. there were other elections tonight including in minnesota and minneapolis and in seattle. and both of those people -- if they won and i'm assuming they did, up in way things are going, this is coming to a city near all of you. >> bret: harold? >> politics is superfluid, it's dynamic. four years ago people in virginia voted for a republican for governor. the message tonight is politicians have to listen. you have to listen to voters, respond to voters. there's nothing inevitable because president trump is president meaning republicans will win. it has to be earned and voters are willing to vote for change. that is the message tonight.

democrats, listen to the panel, respond to people. if you don't, two years from now we may be having a different conversation. >> bret: i will be talking to present from tomorrow in miami and he will give a speech in miami and i will have an interview. we'll see what comes out of that. thank you for joining us for democracy 25. special coverage of this election night, pulls in california close in just seconds. >> thanks to our panel and things to all of you for joining us this evening. great to have you with us, our continuing coverage continues right now with trace gallagher, who joins us next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> trace: it's 11:00 p.m. on the east coast, 8:00 in los angeles and this is a special election night edition of america's late news, fox news at night